孤独是作家最基本的条件。

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

一流智力的检验标准是同时持有两种对立观点，并且仍然能够正常运作的能力。

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.